(Vanity) Is DRUDGEREPORT.COM spreading Computer viruses?

drudgereport ^ | 12-8-04 | me

[grandpiano007]

For the last two days, every time I visit Drudge, my computer gets hijacked by some pop-up virus. Am I the only one? I have to put the Yahoo-toolbar virus scanner on it and it tells me I got a Trojan horse hijacking my computer. It does get rid of it, but what's going on? Can someone please proof me wrong, so I can look for the cause somewhere else? Or have you experienced it too. Is drudge out of money or something to allow this scumware to infect his readers' computers?

[Peace Is Coming]

bttt

[Capitalism2003]

firefox = faster page loads
firefox = more secure
firefox = built in spyware guard
firefox = built in pop-up blocker
firefox = tabbed browsing
firefox = lots of great extensions to improve productivity
firefox = lots of great visual themes

IE = nada

[TLI]

However, I DO know I've had NO problems with Firefox. Zero. Nada. Zilch.

Same here. Running FF 1.0 since the release. No pops, fast, everything runs smooth, looks good. Wouldn't consider going back to the nightmare of IE.

[Socrates1]

Over 92% of Internet users and businesses worldwide use use it.

Its your little firefox that has to comply with IE standards, not the other way round.

Wrong, and bad logic. There is not such thing as an "IE standard". IE is a "proprietary" inplementation of the international standard. Web developers are not about to develop web sites that can only use IE features. Bad for business and consumers are ill served since Microsoft (and others) don't adequately support the standardized features.

HTML standards are set by the [World Wide Web Consortium], or W3C. W3C is a governing body composed of dues paying members most of whom represent large corporations with a vested interest in the development of HTML and the World Wide Web.

What is the HTML Standard?
As you know, there are a number of companies producing a number of different web browsers. So who sets the standard for what is and isn't official HTML?

There is an organization that does this called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). They are an international consortium that sets the standards for HTML. So if I was a company that was going to make a web browser, I'd go to their site and find out what the standard was and make sure that my browser could read and interpret everything in the standard.

[KwasiOwusu]

"Try 89% and sinking fast."

Still 92.9% and over 25 times the market share of firefox! :)

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1706694,00.asp

[KwasiOwusu]

firefox = piece of grabge.
With plenty of hot air from the open course nuts of course. :)

[Guyin4Os]

You don't need spybot, you don't need adaware, you don't need firefox. All you need is a popup-blocker and then set your cookies to prompt before allowing a cookie to be placed on your computer. Then you will have virtual control over everything that comes in.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Thanks for the advice. I am at work(Win2000 and IE 6.0} and Drudge has been eating my work computer's lunch.

At home I run Foxfire and have no problems with any pop ups.

[lunarbicep]

ping

[KwasiOwusu]

"Wrong, and bad logic. There is not such thing as an "IE standard". IE is a "proprietary" inplementation of the international standard. Web developers are not about to develop web sites that can only use IE features. Bad for business and consumers are ill served since Microsoft (and others) don't adequately support the standardized features."

Nonsense.
IE has over 92% of the browser market.
There is such a thing as defacto standard and IE is it.
Its like how MS-Dos became the defacto standard for PC operating systems all those years go.
Were there lots of other operating systems?
You bet!
There were over a hundred of them.
The market, finally determined which standard to back, and they backed MS-Dos, same as they backed IE 6 years ago.
Web developers have been developing for IE now for over 6 years.
Its not a matter of "Web developers are not about to develop web sites that can only use IE features"
They already have!
And its been VERY GOOD for business.
Internet commerce, Internet use, every measure of Internet business has simply BOOMED massively over the past 6 years, running on the back of IE, which is the only way over 92% of Internet users do business on the web.
IE has been very good for Internet business

[Socrates1]

Here we have the guys with the 4% share, and going nowhere, presuming to dictate to the guys with the over 92% share

Would that be like Microsoft's belated support for TCP/IP? Ever heard of Mosaic?

If we went by marketshare we'd all still be using Netbeui through a protocol converter.

[KwasiOwusu]

I use my super IE 6 in Drudge every day.
Its been running as smoothly as old brandy. :)
No problems whatsoever.
Wouldn't even dream of putting the dreaded open source, commie garbage firefox, on my machine.

[KwasiOwusu]

"Would that be like Microsoft's belated support for TCP/IP?"

Microsoft strengthened their support for TCP/IP when it was necessary to do so.
Firefox is NOT TCP/IP.

[Ben Chad]

Just switched from IE to Mozilla. Works like a well-lubricated c----ar.

[TLI]

good for you! I will be KEEPING FF, thank you.

[Socrates1]

Its like how MS-Dos became the defacto standard for PC operating systems all those years go.

Actually PC-DOS was the defacto standard. MS-DOS had smaller marketshare.

Were there lots of other operating systems?
You bet!
There were over a hundred of them

Really? Besides CP/M and DR-DOS how many can you name.

Truly delusionary.

Perhaps you should do a little homework before you make idiotic statements about "hundreds" of PC operating systems. If your are talking about minicomputers & mainframes, they are all Unix derivatives (also open source).

Before you ridicule open source, perhaps you could consider that the ENTIRE internet is built on "open source", and includes the specification for HTTP & SMTP/POP3, DNS, et al.

Or did you think that Al Gore worked for Microsoft?

IBM and AT&T once had 80%+ marketshare too. International standards encouraged the competition that trimmed them down to size too.

[elmer fudd]

That link is over a month old. As of December IE is only 88.9%.

[Socrates1]

Microsoft strengthened their support for TCP/IP when it was necessary to do so

Strengthened? What does that mean?

You must mean the first port that they "bought", and forgot that the Microsoft stack had many interoperability problems with the entire TCP/IP world.

But then again, you probably aren't old enough to know that either.

[puppetz]

hey, it was a typo chill out
god what a tight@22

[JoJo Gunn]

Y'all don't thank me just yet. I just went to Drudge using IE and the ad I mentioned earlier is showing, even though I entered the site into the Restricteds. And there's an American Express popup at ABC's site I haven't stopped either.

sigh